• Torrenting Speeds Slow & Whole Network Slowdown
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So! I need some assistance with this. I'm using qBittorrent and when downloading a torrent Seed - 55 (759) Peers - 112 (2782) My speeds are only reaching 500kb - 1mb download and similar upload. My whole network is also getting crapped on while the torrent is active. I have checked resource monitor - [url]https://gyazo.com/13eab0803af1dc240879fb4ae13a9ae2[/url] and that shouldn't be destroying anything. Also here is my speedtest and my provider are reporting no faults. - [url]https://gyazo.com/15361a12b060c3077511d651411e8f76[/url] Can anyone help? I don't think it's an issue with qBittorent but I can be wrong...
Does your router have any facility to show resource usage on it? Some suck dick at handling lots of connections like with torrents. And are you using a wired or wireless connection. Not that it necessarily indicates anything, just curious.
Using the Virgin Super Hub 2ac Thing is not torrented in a while but never really had the issue before, though its happening on multiple torrents. and I'm on Ethernet. Downloads from Steam and such are going at 10MB/s
What I'm guessing is happening is that the routing table on your router is overflowing. A problem with connecting to a torrent swarm, or multiple swarms is that it can open thousands of connections, all of which the router must manage in a table. An overflowing routing table can manifest in several ways: 1) If the router has poorly coded firmware (ie. the routing table is not bounds limited), this can result in stack smashing or buffer overflows and make the router crash. Some routers have dynamically allocated routing tables that are not bounds limited which can cause the router to exhaust its RAM and crash as well. 2) When the routing table is full, no new connections are allowed and additional attempts to connect to internet resources from other applications fail. 3) The routing table is too big for the router to manage and slows down. Some routers have a routing table that can exceed the capacity of the onboard CPU to handle, resulting in slowdowns. Assuming you don't want to buy an enterprise class router or build your own PC based router, you'll have to take steps to mitigate your torrent swarm connections. There's usually an option in better torrent clients which allows you to limit the total number of ingoing/outgoing connections. I'd recommending setting a hard limit at 1500-2000 and step it down if you find that doesn't work.
Alright, I'll have a look at that tonight and see if it makes a difference. Cheers
[img]https://i.gyazo.com/8e02a59d46516dd922b95b306739c8bf.png[/img] [img]https://i.gyazo.com/e15d29fc249fcf005b48c170c32cb340.png[/img] [img]https://i.gyazo.com/d88bfd585faf7e4b49bb8cd8746fc8ae.png[/img] Settings on qBittorrent. Still having issues Also, something that has been happening on my Router for the past couples of days, maybe longer [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11731332/f34f80917ae67a5e014727047c0966a0.png[/img] [editline]28th February 2017[/editline] Think I may have found the issue... Virgin Media have started throttling torrents. If I go over 300kb/s upload, my download speed just goes down the shitter. Good job Virgin.
I guess so. I just reached 3.4MB/s download by limiting my speed to 200KB/s upload also incase these mean anything [url]https://gyazo.com/4ce9e807e15a13c7551282ae9e3c60bb[/url] [url]https://gyazo.com/5e30e67fbf0f198fe6bf8aaeac37164c[/url]
According to those, your signal should be good.
Virgin is throttling me at 4pm - 11pm (and maybe more) My upstream/downstream is fine qBittorrent settings are fine(?) I will try torrenting past 11pm and see what happens
I forgot to look at your upload speed. Maxing out your upload bandwidth can cause slowdowns in other applications. Because even though you're doing more requesting data than sending, that sent data is important for receiving data, it being bottlenecked will affect download speeds as well.
I should be getting around 12MB/s upload to be honest and I'm not getting 152MB/s which is what I'm paying for. Think I'll ring virgin.
[QUOTE=TrannyAlert;51892660]I should be getting around 12MB/s upload to be honest and I'm not getting 152MB/s which is what I'm paying for. Think I'll ring virgin.[/QUOTE] Welcome to Cable, where your speed isn't guaranteed.
Rung them up and they said there is a high usage so I won't be getting my full speed until it's fixed on 28th June. Still don't know what the issue is but I painfully managed to download my torrents and will avoid doing it for a while.
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